Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to grow or it lessens, even corrupts him. The mission of schools is to develop a sense of truth, of what is good and beautiful. And this occurs through a rich path made up of many ingredients. This is why there are so many subjects - because development is the results of different elements that act together and stimulate intelligence, knowledge, the emotions, the body, and so on.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.